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Assistant Vice President, Construction

Arch

Hybird-Multiple LocationsFinance
SalaryUSD 144,100–223,693 / year
Before you apply

Role details

The practical picture
Base compensation

USD 144,100–223,693 / year

Work arrangement
Hybrid
Employment
Full-time

Work & location

Office locations
New York, NY United States of America, US
Office attendance
estimated overnight travel schedule of 20% per month
Travel
frequent travel throughout the Region with an estimated overnight travel schedule of 20% per month

Experience & eligibility

Education
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent training required.
Skills
  • Insurance Underwriting
  • Construction Casualty Programs
  • Loss Sensitive Programs
  • Risk Assessment
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Account Management
  • Negotiation

Compensation & benefits

Bonus / commission
Position is incentive eligible.

Inside the role

Qualifications
CPCU or other similar designation a plus.
Role signal brief

The role, at a glance

Extracted from the source posting · 90% confidence

The Assistant Vice President of Construction is responsible for technical underwriting and account management of large account construction casualty programs. The role involves assessing financial risks, structuring loss sensitive programs, and managing post-bind activities and client relationships. It requires at least seven years of underwriting or construction industry experience and a bachelor's degree.

Compensation
USD 144,100–223,693 / year

What you need

  • Seven plus years of underwriting experience and/or seven plus years experience in the construction industry and/or insurance industry
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent training

What you will own

  • Solicit and review new and renewal account information to evaluate risk
  • Identify potential exposures and hazards in relation to coverage requested and individual risk characteristics
  • Assess insurance and related financial risk and structure appropriate loss sensitive programs
  • Underwrite prices and prepare proposals based on risk characteristics and internal resource input
  • Quarterback post-bind activities including policy production, compliance, audits, and adjustments
  • Manage renewal and retention process to achieve targeted goals
Core skills
Insurance UnderwritingConstruction Casualty ProgramsLoss Sensitive ProgramsRisk AssessmentMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft WordMicrosoft OutlookMicrosoft PowerPointAccount ManagementNegotiation
Internal freshness window ends Oct 22, 2026
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  • salary “For NY, JC, Boston: $144,100 - $223,693/year”
  • incentive_compensation “Position is incentive eligible.”
  • job_locations “New York, NY United States of America; Boston, MA United States of America; Jersey City, NJ United States of America; Hartford, CT United States of America; Philadelphia, PA United States of America”
  • department “The Assistant Vice President within Arch Construction is responsible for...”
  • qualifications “CPCU or other similar designation a plus.”
  • employment_types “#LI-Hybrid”
  • workplace_type “#LI-Hybrid”
  • skills “Seven plus years of underwriting experience and/or seven plus years experience in the construction industry and/or insurance industry.”
  • experience_months “Seven plus years of underwriting experience and/or seven plus years experience in the construction industry and/or insurance industry.”
  • education_requirements “Bachelor’s degree or equivalent training required.”
  • travel_requirements “frequent travel throughout the Region with an estimated overnight travel schedule of 20% per month”
  • benefits “Arch is committed to helping employees succeed through our comprehensive benefits package that includes multiple medical plans plus dental, vision and prescription drug coverage; a competitive 401k with generous matching; PTO beginning at 20 days per year; up to 12 paid company holidays per year...”
  • attendance_requirement “frequent travel throughout the Region with an estimated overnight travel schedule of 20% per month”
  • incentive_compensation “Position is incentive eligible.”
insurance underwritingconstruction casualty programsloss sensitive programsrisk assessment
Role brief

With a company culture rooted in collaboration, expertise and innovation, we aim to promote progress and inspire our clients, employees, investors and communities to achieve their greatest potential. Our work is the catalyst that helps others achieve their goals. In short, We Enable Possibility℠.

Job Summary

The Assistant Vice President within Arch Construction is responsible for the technical underwriting and account management of large account construction casualty programs.


Responsibilities

Technical Underwriting

  • Solicits and reviews new and renewal account information required to evaluate a risk.
  • Identifies all potential exposures and hazards in relation to coverage requested and individual risk characteristics.
  • Assesses insurance and related financial risk and structures appropriate loss sensitive program to effectively protect against frequency, severity, catastrophic and credit risk
  • Engage other internal resources as necessary
  • Underwrites prices and prepares proposals based on objective and subject risk characteristics, input of internal resource team, existing product set and regulatory filings.
  • Prepares final quotation/proposal and presents to producer and/or prospective insured.
  • Coordinates all administrative duties related to existing and prospective accounts.

Account Management

  • Quarterbacks all post bind activities including policy production, compliance issues, audits and adjustments, legal agreements, receipt of collateral, legal agreement execution, TPA coordination and any other related items.
  • Together with internal team members, takes responsibility to deliver promised service to customers.
  • Responsible for the renewal and retention management and manages the renewal process to achieve targeted retention and price change goals.
  • Initiates, coordinates and conducts a mid term account review.

Sales and Marketing

  • Develops and maintains relationships with producers and insured’s to achieve overall productions and profitability goals.
  • Meets with producers and insured’s to discuss individual account issues, uncover critical customer needs and financial buying characteristics; frequent travel throughout the Region with an estimated overnight travel schedule of 20% per month.
  • Develops a strategic plan for positioning and selling Arch at both the producer and the insured level.
  • Engages and introduces other team members or management team as appropriate.
  • Develops and maintains relationships with producers to generate a flow of qualified submissions.

Administrative

  • Responsible for all underwriting and policy file documentation
  • Completes ad hoc projects as assigned by management personnel

Skills & Experience

  • Understanding and knowledge of the intent, scope and purpose of the Workers Compensation, General Liability, Automobile coverage forms and endorsements with the ability to tailor to the sold program design.
  • Possess a thorough understanding of all loss sensitive programs including products, pricing, expensing, actuarial loss projecting techniques, retention and aggregate setting, limit profiles, ALAE, and effective utilization of facultative reinsurance.
  • Understanding and knowledge of exposure identification and analysis
  • Possess a cross functional generalist knowledge of other disciplines including claims, risk control, audit, premium accounting, finance and legal.
  • Knowledge of regulatory and compliance issues
  • Knowledge of Arch’s product set
  • Excellent communication skills – written, verbal and presentation
  • Sales and Negotiation skills
  • Be able to provide leadership and support to other team members
  • Ability to perform multiple tasks simultaneously
  • Have the ability to influence without authority and be willing to work in a collaborative and team environment.
  • Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel, Work, Outlook, and PowerPoint

Required Experience

  • Seven plus years of underwriting experience and/or seven plus years experience in the construction industry and/or insurance industry.
  • Established broker relationships within the Region would be ideal.

Educational Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent training required.
  • CPCU or other similar designation a plus.

#LI-JD1

#LI-Hybrid

For individuals assigned or hired to work in the location(s) indicated below, the base salary range is provided. Range is as of the time of posting. Position is incentive eligible.

For NY, JC, Boston: $144,100 - $223,693/year

For Philadelphia, Hartford: $133,300 - $206,958/year

  • Total individual compensation (base salary, short & long-term incentives) offered will take into account a number of factors including but not limited to geographic location, scope & responsibilities of the role, qualifications, talent availability & specialization as well as business needs. The above pay range may be modified in the future.

  • Arch is committed to helping employees succeed through our comprehensive benefits package that includes multiple medical plans plus dental, vision and prescription drug coverage; a competitive 401k with generous matching; PTO beginning at 20 days per year; up to 12 paid company holidays per year plus 2 paid days of Volunteer Time Offer; basic Life and AD&D Insurance as well as Short and Long-Term Disability; Paid Parental Leave of up to 10 weeks; Student Loan Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement, Backup Child and Elder Care; and more. Click here to learn more on available benefits.

     

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